The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew (Inbunden)
avAlan P. Lightman
ISBN: 9780307908582 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences--old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite ex[...]
Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation (Häftad)
avAlan P. Lightman, R.H. Price
ISBN: 9780691081625 - UTGIVEN: 1975-12In their solutions, the authors have attempted to convey a mode of approach to these kinds of problems, revealing procedures that can reduce the labor of calculations while avoiding the pitfall of too much or too powerful formalism. Although well suited for individual use, the volume may also be use[...]
Accidental Universe (Inbunden)
avAlan P. Lightman
ISBN: 9781472109187 - UTGIVEN: 2013-11Explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind. This title offers a collection of essays that shows us our own universe from a series of diverse perspectives.[...]
Mr g (Inbunden)
avAlan P. Lightman
ISBN: 9781780333786 - UTGIVEN: 201205With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, this is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale. "As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe." So begins Alan Lightman's playful and [...]
Einstein's Dreams (Häftad)
avAlan P. Lightman
ISBN: 9781780335575 - UTGIVEN: 201205A modern classic, "Einstein's Dreams" is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In[...]
